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Episode 4: Transformación en una Pandemia / Transformation in a Pandemic

Episode 4: Transformación en una Pandemia / Transformation in a Pandemic

Released Wednesday, 23rd September 2020
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Episode 4: Transformación en una Pandemia / Transformation in a Pandemic

Episode 4: Transformación en una Pandemia / Transformation in a Pandemic

Episode 4: Transformación en una Pandemia / Transformation in a Pandemic

Episode 4: Transformación en una Pandemia / Transformation in a Pandemic

Wednesday, 23rd September 2020
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*This episode is bilingual. The first half is in spanish; a full english interpretation begins at 30min 54sec. Skip to here to listen in english! 

Español: En este episodio, Luis Luna habla con Yimy Aldair Benitez Lopez, una mujer transgénero que pasó cinco meses en un centro de detención de ICE solo para hombres y estaba en detención cuando empezó la pandemia. Su conversación explora los condiciones fatales que Yimy experimentó adentro durante la pandemia, y las dificultades que en enfrentó en continuar su tratamiento de terapia hormonal en la detención, pero también, su vida artística como intérprete con el nombre Itzel Ferrati, y la importancia de la creatividad incluso en las peores condiciones.

Sylvia Ryerson también habla con Rachel Levenson, una de las abogados de Yimy con Make the Road NY, sobre la importancia del caso de Yimy, el papel central de Yimy en la organización y divulgación de noticias sobre una huelga de hambre dentro del Centro Correccional del Condado de Hudson para protestar estas condiciones, y la lucha en curso por #LiberarATodos.

English: In this episode, Luis Luna talks with Yimy Aldair Benitez Lopez, a trans woman who spent five months in an all-male ICE facility in New Jersey, and was in detention when the pandemic first hit. Their conversation explores the deadly conditions Yimy experienced inside during the pandemic, the difficulties they faced in continuing their hormone therapy treatment in detention, but also, their artistic life as a performer by the name of Itzel Ferrati, and the importance of creativity even in the worst of conditions.

Sylvia Ryerson also speaks with Rachel Levenson, one of Yimy’s attorney’s with Make the Road NY, about the significance of Yimy’s case, Yimy’s central role in organizing and breaking the news about a hunger strike inside of the Hudson County Correctional Center to protest these conditions, and the ongoing fight to #FreeThemAll.

For more information see:

www.maketheroadny.org

www.detentionwatchnetwork.org

www.meltingtheice.org

Hosted by Luis Luna

Co-Produced and Edited by Sylvia Ryerson

Production and Research Assistance by Annie Rosenthal

Music by Olmeca, more at www.olmecaofficial.com

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